Build A More Positive Self-Image

Our self-image dwells at the sub-conscious level of thinking, and although the term sub-conscious mind has been used, often inaccurately by non professional people, it is much more correct to think of it not as a mind, but rather a level of awareness with very special characteristics and abilities. The conscious level of thinking is responsible for collecting information from the environment, storing it in the memory cells, and making rational decisions. The sub-conscious level of thinking, is responsible for autonomic body control, such as breathing and heartbeat, and the storage of information and creative goal seeking.

The conscious mind cannot make a decision without clearing it with the sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind checks your memory bank including the self-image and replays the available data back to the conscious mind for taking action. Your sub-conscious mind controls the conscious level of thinking. The information in the sub-conscious mind is permanent, it is a lifetime of stored events and information. You can never erase your sub-conscious mind but you can overwrite it with new and challenging information and events.

To improve your personal development it's your self-image that needs some adjusting and this needs to be ingrained in your sub-conscious mind. It's important to know that every imagined experience, repeated vividly is also recorded in the brain before the event has ever really taken place. So we have a replay and a pre-play ability, a feedback and a feed forward capability in the mind, and every moment of everyday we program our sub-conscious mind and self-image to work for us or work against us.

Since our sub-conscious mind is only for storage, it strives to meet the objective and goals we set, whether negative or positive, false or true, wrong or right, dangerous or not dangerous, losing or winning. It's sole function is to follow instructions based upon previous inputs and to respond automatically. Your sub-conscious self-image can't distinguish between an actual experience or one that you have only vividly imagined, it stores emotional fantasy's as your own reality. This is why we are full of prejudices, full of fears and Easter bunny's, learned from our parents, peers, and the media, which simply are not true.

Many of your everyday decisions are based upon information about yourself, which has been stored as truth, but is just a figment of your own imagination shaded by your own environmental conditioning. This shows the importance of training and re-training your sub-conscious mind, in your journey for improved personal development.

You see your a slave to your sub-conscious mind and your developed self-image. If you try to make a change to yourself, using only your conscious mind and will power, the change will most likely only be temporary. Whenever your conscious mind and your sub-conscious mind come in conflict, your sub-conscious mind has the best chance of winning. To improve your personal development you must work on your sub-conscious mind, this is where your self-image has been developed and where it has to be worked on.

Any personal change in your behavior begins with change in your self-image, and this can be accomplished by defeating your fears and through strong desire. Your behavior and achievement level is usually consistent with your self-image. If you perform below your self-image level, you will naturally feel uncomfortable, and make any necessary adjustments to try and do better next time. If you happen to perform to well or too high above your self-image level, tension will automatically bring your performance back down to where you think you belong.

This explains temporary fleeting success, and choking under pressure. This is all behavioral actions based on your personal self-image. Working to impress new beliefs upon your sub-conscious mind, is personal development in action, that is if you are striving to improve upon your self-image. Winners in life take it on themselves to enlarge their self-image, winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they have already achieved their new role in life.

In building your own personal development you chose to see yourself as the person you want to be, you envision success, and achievement, your belief in yourself has grown to the level you want it to be. You should always strive to be better, take control of your mind through mental pictures, tell yourself you are a winner and a winner you will be.